<p class="rtejustify"> The First ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2011), puts together the long-lasting experience of former ACM CIVR and ACM MIR. It is the ideal forum to present and encounter the most recent developments and applications in the area of multimedia content retrieval. Originally set up to illuminate the state-of-the-art in image and video retrieval, ICMR aims at becoming the world reference event in this exciting field of research, where researchers and practitioners can exchange knowledge and ideas.</p>

<p class="rtejustify"> ICDSC 2010 is taking place in Atlanta, GA, USA on August 31st - September, 4th 2010. The conference offers insight into the potentials and challenges of distributed vision networks and presentat</p>

<p class="rtejustify"> <strong>Important Dates:</strong><br /> * September 24, 2010: Submission Deadline<br /> * November 9, 2010: Notification Date<br /> <br /> We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the 2nd ACM Multimedia Systems (MMSys) Conference to be held Feb. 23-25, 2011 in San Jose, California, USA. The ACM Multimedia Systems conference provides a forum for researchers, engineers, and scientists to present and share their latest research findings in multimedia systems.</p>

<table align="left" style="width: 119px; height: 135px;"> <tbody> <tr border="10" border-color="white"> <td> <img alt="" src="http://drupal.sigmm.org/sites/default/files/efi3.jpg" style="width: 100px; height: 130px; float: left; margin: 5px 10px;" /></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="rtejustify"> The 2010 winner of the ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications is <strong>Effrosyni Kokiopoulou</strong> (<a href="http://www.math.ethz.ch/%7Ekokiopoe/">http://www.math.ethz.ch/~kokiopoe/</a>). Dr. Kokiopoulou receives the award for her thesis - Geometry-Aware Analysis of High-Dimensional Visual Information Sets ? that she has done at the Signal Processing Laboratory (LTS4), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr. Kokiopoulou is currently a postdoctoral research associate at the Seminar for Applied Mathematics at ETH Zurich.</p>

<table align="left" style="width: 130px; height: 100px;"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <img alt="Ramesh Jain" src="http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Announcement/Ramesh_Jain/" style="float: left; margin: 5px 15px; width: 120px; height: 100px;" /></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> The 2010 winner of the prestigious ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications is Dr. Ramesh Jain. Dr Jain is currently the Donald Bren Professor in Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. The ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement award, given in recognition of outstanding contributions over a researcher&rsquo;s career, cited Dr. Jain&rsquo;s &quot;pioneering research and inspiring leadership that transformed multimedia information processing to enhance the quality of life and visionary leadership of the multimedia community&quot;.</p>

<table align="left" style="width: 117px; height: 100px;"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <img alt="nicolas georganas" src="http://sigmm.utdallas.edu/Announcement/nicolas_georganas/" style="width: 107px; height: 150px; margin: 5px 15px; float: left;" /></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="rtejustify"> We are saddened by the passing of Nicolas D. Georganas, distinguished professor at the School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE) and founding dean of the University of Ottawa&#39;s Faculty of Engineering.<br /> Nicolas was one of today&#39;s leading researchers in information technology, particularly multimedia systems. His work on performance design and analysis of computer-communication networks, dynamic/hybrid channel assignment in mobile cellular networks and multimedia communications has had a major impact on the field.</p>